The author has been one of the leading voices in understanding and analysing the rise of this technology for years, and his ...

Ted Chiang, who wrote the short story on which Denis Villeneuve's Arrival is based, once revealed his favorite movie adaptation, and it's not a sci-fi story.

Ted Chiang’s collection of speculative short stories, “Exhalation: Stories” makes readers rethink how they view the world. Chiang successfully takes common science fiction tropes like time travel, ...

"I'll never be able to speak their words!" That cry of frustration comes from linguistics professor Louise Banks in the new movie Arrival. Banks, played by Amy Adams, is confronted with a hard jolt of ...

If, like me, you are a fan of the science fiction author Ted Chiang, you know he doesn't publish as often as some of his peers. TED CHIANG: I wish I, you know, wrote faster. I can't claim any moral ...

The arrival of a new piece of short fiction by Ted Chiang is always cause for celebration and parades and wild dancing. Especially his latest story, “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling,” which ...

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People are often keen to impose a restrictive definition on science fiction, usually to rule something out of the genre. And even some of the genre’s best authors have been on the receiving end of ...

Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of Ted Chiang’s first sale, “Tower of Babylon” — a story that instantly snapped up a Nebula Award. In the decades since, he has consistently hewed to a course ...

A screenwriter with an interest in genre storytelling, previously known for various outings in the horror genre, Eric Heisserer fought a lengthy uphill battle in pitching a film based on Ted Chiang’s ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Science fiction’s full of wishful thinking about artificial intelligence: It’ll spring up on its own. It’ll become smarter than us in no time. Ted Chiang’s new novella, The Life Cycle of Software ...